06-23-2021, 01:23 AM | #151 | |
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>>And, besides, for me an e-ink device is for things that are mostly static and don't frequently change what's displayed.<< I wholeheartedly agree! |
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06-23-2021, 04:48 AM | #152 | ||
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06-23-2021, 04:50 AM | #153 |
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06-24-2021, 01:06 AM | #154 |
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Kobo Writing Life Podcast interview with Kobo VP of Product Ramesh Mantha on the Elipsa. Very enlightening. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...=1000526529317 Thanks, Joe |
06-24-2021, 02:04 AM | #155 |
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I found it odd that their market research reported users saying they found ease of navigation to be a weak point of e-readers. He actually talked about people using digital bookmarks in the literal sense of word, their fingers. That to me illustrates the exact opposite, that e-readers are much better for navigating than paper books.
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06-24-2021, 06:07 AM | #156 | |
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06-24-2021, 07:04 AM | #157 | |
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while reading the text on my Libra |
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06-24-2021, 07:09 AM | #158 | |
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Books with end-notes, extensive bibliographies and other back matter are all the sort of things l'm likely to want to switch around between several places. My Kobo will do back-and-forth between two places at a pinch ... as long as I don't want to skip off and look at something else briefly before coming back to where I was, in which case it all has to be set back up again. |
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06-24-2021, 07:17 AM | #159 | |
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I have to admit that after watching the wrap-up to the "deep dive guide" on YT, I'd be temmpted to buy one myself if they release a model with buttons |
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06-24-2021, 11:22 AM | #160 | |
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Also it should have had better support for fonts, languages and SD slot. Very badly researched. Simply a bigger version of the KK2 was never going to be a success. The performance loading a scanned page PDF of a reference work is abymal and turning page on that is dreadful, a CPU & RAM issue, not eInk. Also the updated DXG, while a brighter screen, can't run the better FW of the earlier KK3. |
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06-24-2021, 11:48 AM | #161 |
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Yeah I'm kind of with you there. Put some buttons on there like the Libra (not the Forma's squishy kind) and add Comfortlight Pro and I'm there.
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06-25-2021, 02:03 AM | #162 |
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When I've had a book where I want to refer to the map a lot, I've set the map as the book cover. Then all I have to do is sleep my Kobo to check it.
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06-25-2021, 05:28 AM | #163 |
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06-25-2021, 10:05 AM | #164 | |
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Not only maps, but when I'm reading a play and go, "Wait, who is Chester?" and I need to see the dramatis personae. So, I came up with a solution. (Erm, at least for me.) I put in a "Swap" button that exchanges your current position with the top of the stack. Ok, some users will want 12 presets and make it all more complicated. For me this is enough. Usage: You're reading. You need to look at the dramatis personae. You hit "Push" to save your place. You hit "5" and "Go" because you thought that it was about page 5. You were wrong, so you go back a few pages. You're at the DP. You hit "Swap" and you are back where you were reading. Later: You read some more and need to see the DP. You hit "Swap" and you're at the DP. You hit "Swap" and you're back where you were. (The first steps will be easier if you just "Push" at the DP when you start leafing through the first pages.) Edit: This would work out great for footnotes too. Let's say you have 10 pages of footnotes. You set the first page as your swap. Eventually, you find when swapping that your footnote is on the second page. You just turn the page as usual, read the footnote and "Swap". The next time you look for a footnote you'll already be on the second page. This works out better than a fixed preset. Last edited by Renate; 06-25-2021 at 10:23 AM. |
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06-27-2021, 07:43 PM | #165 | |
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